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Program of Exercises 



FOR USE IN THE 



Schools of the United States 



UPON THE 



One Hundredth Birthday 



OF 



GENERAL ULYSSES S. GRANT 



April 27, 1922 



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Price per 100 copies, postage included, $2.50 









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From an Unpublished Photograph of General Grant, taken during his 
presidency, now in possession of U. S. Grant Post, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

^f N pursuance of the recommendation of the Committee 
"^ appointed by the Grand Army of the Republic at its 
Fifty-fifth National Encampment held in Indianapolis, 
Indiana, September 25 to October 1 , 1 92 1 for the proper 
observance of the Centenary of the birth of General 
Ulysses S. Grant, April 27, 1 922, Lewis S. Pilcher, Com- 
mander-in-Chief, has authorized the following program 
as suitable for use in the schools of the land. 

The Grand Army of the Republic earnestly desires 
that this Memorial Occasion may not pass without leaving 
deep and abiding impressions upon the hearts of the 
youth of America and strengthening the faith of those 
who believe in the God of our Fathers and in the priceless 
boon of civil and religious liberty. 

Compiled by Levi Longfellow, National Patriotic Instructor, G. A. R. 
With the assistance of W. F. Webster, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, 
Minneapolis, Minn. 



PROGRAM OF EXERCISES. 



1. MlMi — AMlKltA. FOUR STANZAS. 

2. Sai.ite to Tui: Flac;. 

»v A Stati:mkn"t <•!• th": Hr (asiox and Purpose of the 
Program. 

4. Mi'sic — One of the Civil War Songs. 

5. Sketch of the Life of Ulysses S. Grant. 

6. RoYnf»OD AND Youth ok Grant. (To be selected by the 

teacher) . 

7. Music — One of the Civil War Songs. 

8. Grant in the Civh, War. 

9. "Tenting on the Old C-Amp-Ground." 

10. Grant at Appomattox. (To be selected by the teacher.) 

11. Mtsic — "Battle Hymn of the Republic." 

12. Grant as President. 

13. McKinley's Appreciation of Grant. 

14. The American Creed. Pupils standing. 

15. The Star Spangled Banner. 



SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ULYSSES S. GRANT. 



Ulysses S. Grant was born April 27, 1822. His father 
was marked as a hrave man, known among his neighbors as 
fearless and determined. His nu)ther was a quiet, persistent, 
devout, high minded woman. He inherited the best qualities 
of each. 

He entered the Military Academy at West Point July L 
1839, at the age of seventeen, and was graduated June 30, 
1843. He was assigned to the Fourth Infantry; entered 
Mexico as Brevet Second Lieutenant, under General Taylor, 
in May, 1846; was in his first battle at Palo Alto, May 6, 
1846; and was breveted for courage and ability on the field 
twice in five days. 

lie married .Miss Julia B. Dent August 22, 1848; went 
to California in 1852; resigned from the Army July, 1854; 
experimented for a time for a living as a coal dealer, real 
estate agent and farmer; returned to Galena, Illinois, in 1859, 
where he clerked in his father's leather store till the firing 
on Fort Sumter. 

In April. 1861, he became a clerk in the Governor's office 
at Springfield. Illinois; was made Colonel of the Twenty- 
I'Mrst Illinois Volunteers in June, 1861 ; Brigadier-General 
julv, 1861; Major-General February, 1862; Lieutenant- 
General :March 9, 1864; General July 25, 1866; elected Presi- 
dent of the United States November, 1868. and again Novem- 
l)er, 1872. 

On lulv 23, 1885. he received his supreme promotion from 
the summit of Mount McGregor, Xew York. 

"On Fame's eternal camping ground 

His silent tent is spread, 
.\nd Glorv guards with solemn round. 

The bivouac of the dead." 



GRANT IN THE CIVIL WAR. 



General Grant, like Lincoln, was determined to maintain 
the Union at any cost. 

First at Fort Donelson and then ou the field of Shiloh 
was demonstrated Grant's wonderful ability to handle men 
under fire. 

General Grant called these two battles our "first clear 
victory" in the issue between the North and South, demon- 
strating the ability of raw recruits to endure and win when 
properly led. It broke the strategic line of defense of the 
South and enabled him to send thousands of prisoners to 
the North. 

Immediately Bowling Green was abandoned; Nashville 
surrendered without a blow ; Columbus was deserted ; Missouri 
was secured; Kentucky was practically freed from invaders 
and Tennessee was restored to the Union. 

It was here that Grant's "unconditional surrender" gave 
new inspiration to the Army and the Country. 

At Shiloh General Grant illustrated the secret of all his 
fighting and his instinct for victory. As he stated it himself : 
"There comes always in a close battle a critical moment when 
both armies have done their best up to their natural endur- 
ance. Each is trembling and uncertain at the limit, anxious 
to see what would come next. To discover this supreme 
moment and then do more than any man could be asked or 
demanded to do, strike first and hard, is always to win," 

"Before the gates of Vicksburg, the 'Gibraltar of Amer- 
ica,' in the passes by Chattanooga, the Marathon of the Cen- 
tral South, in the marshes of the Wilderness, the Death 
Valley of the rebellion, Grant broke the military power of 
the Confederacy." 

His name will be cherished and honored as long as there 
beats anywhere on the earth a human heart in sympathy 
with freedom. 

Charles Henry Fowler. 

From "Patriotic Orations" by Permission. 



GRANT AS PRESIDENT. 



We must measure an administration as we do a man, 
by the things achieved. By this rule General Grant's presi- 
dential administrations put on vast proportions. 

The most difficult thing to be done was to unite the parts 
of the nation so long estranged and so recently in fiercest 
conflict. Force can crush a foe, but it is the highest achieve- 
ment of man's or God's government to soften and win con- 
quered hearts. 

Next came the restoration of the national credit. The 
nation had been passing through a deep and protracted 
financial panic, but under Grant's administration the country 
paid off and restored national credit and resumed specie pay- 
ment, and this was honor enough for one man. 

With honesty and integrity for his administration, with 
national honor and national credit at par, with specie payment 
for all debts, with peace for the poor Indians, with friendship 
for Mexico, and hope for Cuba, and the Treaty of Washington 
in arbitrating the "Alabama Claims" for England, General 
Grant will be honored as a great President. 

The South emulated the North in praising him, and even 
England said, "No man has stained the President's honor or 
questioned his ability." 

Charles Henry Fowler. 

From "Patriotic Orations" by Permission. 



McKINLEY'S APPRECIATION OF GRANT. 



The Kreat heroes of the Civil strife on land and sea are for the 
most part no more. Thomas and Hancock, Logan and McPherson, 
Farragut, Dupont and Porter and a host or others have passed forever 
from human sight. Those remaining grow dearer to us and from 
them and the memory of those who have departed generations yet 
unborn will draw their inspiration and gather strength for patriotic 
purpose. 

A great life never dies. Grant's deeds are imperishable. Great 
names are immortal. General Grant's services and character will 
continue undiminished in influence and will advance in the estimation 
of mankind so long as liberty remains the cornerstone of free govern- 
ment and integrity of life tlie guaranty of good citizenship. 

Faithful and fearless as a volunteer soldier, intrepid and invincible 
as Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the Union, calm and confident 
as President of a re-united and strengthened nation which his genius 
had been instrumental in achieving, he has our homage and that of 
the world; but brilliant as was his public character, we love him 
all the more for his home life and homely virtues. 

His individuality, his bearing and speech, his simple ways had 
a flavor of rare and unique distinction and his Americanism was so 
true and uncompromising that his name will stand as the embodiment 
of Liberty, Loyalty and National Unity. 

Victorious in the work which under Divine Providence he was 
called upon to do; clothed with almost limitless power; he was yet one 
of the people — patient, patriotic and just. Success did not disturb 
the even balance of his mind, while fame was powerless to swerve 
liini from the path of duty. 

Great as he was in war, he loved peace and told the world that 
honorable arbitration of differences was the best hope of civilization. 
With Washington and Lincoln, Grant has an exalted place in history 
and in the affections of the people. To-day his memory is held in 
equal esteem by those whom he led to victory and by those who 
accepted his generous terms of peace. New York City holds in its 
keeping the precious dust of the Silent Soldier; but his achievements 
—what he and his brave comrades wrought for mankind — are in the 
keeping of seventy millions of American citizens who will guard the 
sacred heritage forever and forever more. 

— \Villiiiiii McKinhii, nt ihe tlrdicatioii of the Grant Monument, 

April 27, 1897, New York. 



Creeb 

I BELIEVE in the United States of 
America as a Government of the 
people, by the people, for the 
people, whose just powers are derived 
from the consent of the governed; a 
democracy in a republic; a sovereign 
Nation of many sovereign States; a 
perfect Union, one and inseparable, 
established upon those principles of 
freedom, equality, justice and humanity 
for which American patriots sacrificed 
their lives and fortunes. 

I therefore believe it is my duty to 
my country to love it; to support its 
Constitution; to obey its laws; to re- 
spect its flag; and to defend it against 
all enemies. 



NOTE 

The following books are recommended for reference: 

'General Grant" by James Grant Wilson 

"Grant the Man of Mystery" by Col. Nicholas Smith 

"The True Ulysses S. Grant" by Charles King 
"Ulysses S. Grant" by Hamlin Garland" 

"Campaigning with Grant" by Horace Porter 



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